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 Latin nameGloriosa superba L.
 FamilyColchicaceae
 Identified with (Skt)lāṅgalī, viṣalyā
 Identified with (Hin)karihāri, lāṅgulī
 Identified with (Tam)kalappaikkiḻaṅku, nāpikkoṭi
 Identified with (Mal)mēntōnni, mēttōnni, kāntaḷ
 Identified with (Eng)Malabar glory lily
 Botanical infoA herbaceous tendril climber with tuberous rhizome, leaves sessile, with acuminate tips prolonged into spiral tendrils, flowers showy, changing from greenish to scarlet or crimson, fruits linear-oblong capsules, growing all over India up to 1800 m in low jungles
 Search occurrencelāṅgalī, viṣalyā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageGloriosa superba L. in Google image search
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Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 778)
kalappaikkiḻaṅku: Malabar glory lily, Gloriosa superba


 
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